英语访谈对话 475 Stay-at-Home Parents

 　　Akane: Ruth, what do you think about stay-at-home parents?

　　Ruth: Do you mean like one parent staying at home with a child?

　　Akane: Yeah, one parent staying at home and the other one working?

　　Ruth: Ah, I think it's really bad if a child stays at home with one parent actually.

　　Akane: Really, why would you say that?

　　Ruth: I think children who are brought up like that generally don't know how to socialize with other people except for their parents.

　　Akane: Oh, well, why would you think that?

　　Ruth: Well, they're really not given the opportunity to interact¹ with different people, I mean, they spend pretty much all day, every day, with that one parent, and I think it's a real shame. They don't learn how to share or, you know, how to get along with and talk to different people.

　　Akane: Well, I think that the child will actually get more interaction² if there's a stay at home parent because the parent will be able to take them to different activities and to other houses to have playmates and at the same time, they'll be able to spend more time with that parent and have socializing time with family members.

　　Ruth: But I think children could get those same experiences from different people who look after them. It wouldn't necessarily³ have to be there family who looked after them surely.

　　Akane: Well, sure but, I think that it's different when a person who is not related⁴ takes care of a child. I'm sure that they do their best but the love is not there. The caretaker would not love the child as much as the parent would and at the same time if there's one person taking care of ten different children at the same time I would wonder about the amount of attention that the child would get,and safety issues as well.

　　Ruth: But I think you've got to look at the practical aspect of this. It's not always practical for people who don't have much money to have one parent staying at home all of the time.

　　Akane: That's true. I really agree about that.

　　Ruth: Oh, good we agree on one thing.

1 interact   

vi.相互作用，相互影响，互通信息

参考例句：

• All things are interrelated and interact on each other.一切事物互相联系并相互作用。
• The policeman advised the criminal to interact with the police.警察劝罪犯与警方合作。

2 interaction   

n.交流；相互作用，相互影响，合作

参考例句：

• The interaction of the two groups produced many good ideas.两个组的相互交流产生了许多好主意。
• Price is determined through the interaction of demand and supply.价格在供需的相互作用中形成。

3 necessarily   

adv.必要地，必需地；必定地，必然地

参考例句：

• More work does not necessarily call for more men.增加工作量不一定就要增添人员。
• A voter must necessarily be no younger than eighteen.选民必须在18岁以上。

4 related   

adj.有关系的，有关联的，叙述的，讲述的

参考例句：

• I am not related to him in any way.我和他无任何关系。
• We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。